DRY stands for Don't Repeat Yourself and concerns avoiding duplicated representations of knowledge within a system.

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"DRY stands for Don’t Repeat Yourself and concerns avoiding duplicated representations of knowledge within a system."

The official Pragmatic Programmer tips page lists DRY as Tip 15 and defines it in terms of maintaining one authoritative representation of each piece of knowledge.

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Source title Pragmatic Programmer Tips

Source authors David Thomas and Andrew Hunt

Source year 2019

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